As a trusted technology partner, this successful digital agency designs and delivers innovative technology solutions to businesses of all sizes. They are an innovative, dynamic and trusted technology partner to a diverse range of brand names. With 10 years’ experience, their creative solutions, out of the box thinking and intense customer focus is what helps them to stand out in the crowd.

They have talented teams of specialists in three divisions: Digital, Enterprise Solutions and Products. Following their successful period of growth and transformation, they are now looking for a Head of Development/Dev Manager with a strong LAMP background and experience managing multiple development teams in geographically dispersed locations.

Reporting directly to their CEO, you will lead their development group. In this role, you will be given responsibility for leading (both offshore and onshore) development teams who are responsible for creating scalable, high quality technology platforms/products for clients based in the media, marketing, content management and retail packaging sectors, you will also lead any strategic platform development. This is key role in their organisation; you will be supporting the development of some significant key client time-bound projects, strategic group projects and the on-going implementation of their technical strategy.

The main areas of initial focus will be;

Support and manage key elements of an on-going transformation program within their technical team.

Technical leadership including gaining a deep understanding of current platforms and technologies used and shaping future direction.

Ownership for defining engineering process and deliverables.

Team leadership: Coaching, support and development of their development team

Optimising development quality, velocity and cost.

Management and prioritisation for all development and technical deliverables.

Management of resolutions, and escalation path for live production incidents.

Key Responsibilities;

Day to day management of their technical development team, including fostering a strong cohesive working relationship with other teams.

Train, coach and mentor their development team and establish PDR’s and team and individual objectives, which are measured at agreed periods.

Management and prioritisation of development and technical deliverables for all on-going development projects including new feature/function delivery, bugs/quality resolutions, technical/architecture improvements.

Ongoing implementation and continuous improvement of their current software development life cycle - Agile SCRUM and Agile Kanban, including optimisation of productivity and quality.

Working closely with their product group and user experience resources through full SDLC, helping to evaluate, plan, build and deliver great features through agile methodology.

On-going development of their technical strategy / technical roadmap - and close alignment with their feature strategy and feature roadmap.

Leading continuous development and integration of their main applications and products, and leading development of their strategic marketing resource management / DAM platform.

Work with senior development / architecture leads to implement best-practice development and engineering techniques within their chosen frameworks (such as Symfony within a LAMP environment).

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